From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 21 18:07:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA21895 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 21 May 1996 18:07:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA21885 for ; Tue, 21 May 1996 18:07:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id KAA00180; Wed, 22 May 1996 10:48:09 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199605220118.KAA00180@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Emacs pkg_add problem -- please help. To: ro11@crux2.cit.cornell.edu (Rohan Oberoi) Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 10:48:09 +0930 (CST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <9605211757.AA25445@crux2.cit.cornell.edu> from "Rohan Oberoi" at May 21, 96 01:57:46 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Rohan Oberoi stands accused of saying: > > Apologies for not having included the relevant part of the > error message. It was "Can't find shared library "libXaw.so.6.0". This is part of the stock X distribution. Either you don't have X installed, or you haven't rebooted since you installed it. > Thanks, Jim, I'll try that. It seems a little strange that one > should have to install the X server in order to run emacs, rather > than being able to run emacs from the console. Is this really the > way the package is designed ? Emacs can be built with or without X support. The default is with, which makes for a more generally useful package but requires X to be installed. You can run emacs on the console even if it has X support, it just needs the libraries. Alternatively, you can use the 'port' structure to rebuild an emacs with no X support. > Rohan. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[